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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Build Bee Hotels to Help Save Native Bees

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Bees are an integral part of our ecosystem. A garden with happy, healthy bees grows happy, healthy plants. Why not help these friendly pollinators even more by building “bee hotels”?

There are 4,000 species of bees that are native to North America and they are far more efficient in pollinating than the more commonly known European honeybee. Native bees are losing habitat at a dramatic rate and this is leading to a huge decline in population. You can help save these bees by creating a house for them in your garden. The bees will gladly thank you by pollinating your garden!


http://www.realfarmacy.com/build-bee-hotels-to-help-save-native-bees/
 
Interesting that you mention honey bees.

When Connie and I were down on Sanibel Island last month, the rainy season had set in with a vengeance. Now the place we had rented was just a stone's throw from the local mosquito control heliport. And I mean that literally.

Activity was pretty brisk with the copters taking off an landing there, and we just assumed that they were spraying like crazy for the mosquitoes that were obviously now in abundance. But while walking on the beach one day, we got to talking to a local resident who said he had talked with the copter pilots and they said they were spraying but not for mosquitoes. Unfortunately he did not ask what exactly they were spraying for. Anyway, they said that all the mosquito spraying was being done after dark by planes out of Ft. Myers. And yes we did hear planes flying over head, usually after 10pm.

One night in particular the planes were flying overhead pretty frequently, so I guess they were getting serious about the spraying. Interestingly enough, the next day we were walking on Bowman Beach, and we noticed that there were a LOT of honey bees laying on the beach. Some dead, and others alive, but apparently unable to fly. This was actually quite a nuisance, because if you were to step on one of these still living honey bees, they would definitely light up the underside of your foot. Ask me how I know this... There were also quite a few floating in the water among the waves, again, some alive and some not. We also saw quite a few honey bees flying around as if disoriented above the beach area. One even flew at me from behind and lodged himself between my hat my right ear. Connie wound up pulling that stinger out of the top of my ear, after I pulled the bee out of there.

But anyway, maybe just a coincidence, but there sure were a lot of dead and dying honey bees on that beach directly after the spraying regimen they were doing in the area. But my guess would be that getting rid of the mosquitoes at all costs in order to keep the tourists happy, probably is a whole lot higher on their priority list than trying to keep the honey bees alive.

IMHO, of course.
 
Thanks for sharing the links Joe!

There's a pretty good documentary "More Than Honey" that came out a few years back.
 
With my luck if I put some of those hives in my back yard I'd end up with wasps.
 
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